In the wake of Utah鈥檚 statewide ban on conversion therapy聽for minors last week, 人兽性交 attorneys Scott McCoy and Kate Kendell wrote an op-ed in to remind readers of the damage the dangerous practice causes.
A New Jersey state judge this week ordered the dissolution of an organization known as the Jewish Institute for Global Awareness (JIFGA) 鈥� which facilitated fraudulent gay-to-straight 鈥渃onversion therapy鈥� 鈥� after its directors violated an injunction entered four years ago requiring its predecessor to permanently cease all operations.
This new Southern Poverty Law Center report exposes the bizarre world of gay-to-straight conversion therapy and the practitioners who promote widely discredited notions that endanger and stigmatize the LGBT community.
This is a report about junk science and some of the people who propagate it. It is not about silly, perhaps amusing theories about ESP or life on the moon or even purported miracle cures for cancer. The 鈥渟cience鈥� examined here actively harms people, leading with grim regularity to suicide, depression and an array of self-destructive behaviors. It demeans, defames and defrauds human beings, typically at their most vulnerable moments. And, as if that weren鈥檛 enough, it regularly lays the blame for the alleged malady of homosexuality at the feet of gay people鈥檚 parents, despite the fact that they are wholly innocent.
